Sasidaran Gopalan is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) based in Abu Dhabi.

In the past, he has held various research appointments across several universities in Asia including Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and NUS. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). Sasi’s teaching interests span the broad areas of macroeconomics for policy, money and banking, empirical methods for public policy, international economic policy, and international political economy, with a significant applied policy emphasis. Sasi has taught one or more of these courses over the years at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, across both public policy as well as business schools.

Sasi's research focus is closely aligned with his teaching interests. His research assumes a strong interdisciplinary orientation and lies at the intersection of applied macroeconomics, international economics and development policy, with a broad focus on emerging markets. Specific topics include foreign direct investment, financial globalization, financial inclusion, and trade and global value chains. He has published in notable field journals such as World Development, the World Economy, Climate Policy, and Journal of Macroeconomics, co-written books, as well as contributed to several policy briefs and op-eds for leading global financial dailies.